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Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: speculatrix on January 30, 2008, 04:29:07 pm

given the N810 seems to have everything we zaurus users could want, albeit not in a folding clamshell but good enough, is PP dead?

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: speculatrix on February 13, 2008, 05:54:25 pm

I guess the lack of a response says it all.

There's lots of good information in this forum - ideas etc, so I think it should be kept, but frozen?

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: BarryW on February 13, 2008, 10:13:47 pm

Quote from: speculatrix

given the N810 seems to have everything we zaurus users could want, albeit not in a folding clamshell but good enough, is PP dead?

Too bad it (the nokia) has a crap ui.  That was the reason I got rid of it.

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: speculatrix on February 14, 2008, 04:28:59 pm

Quote from: BarryW

Too bad it (the nokia) has a crap ui.  That was the reason I got rid of it.

I wouldn't say the tablet interface is crap, it's quirky IMHO (see this interesting analysis and comparison with the newton: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/) (http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/)). But that doesn't matter, you can build your own distro, from scratch, use Nokias or Angstrom as a base, and use any UI you want (E17, GPE, QT - the latter exists)

anyway, I didn't mean the n800 OS & UI, I meant the hardware. Given that PP turned out to be vapourware and a wishlist, the 810 fulfils most of it, just needs a mini keyboard (logitech dinovo mini) and use bluetooth to external 3G or GPRS or EDGE phone! The PP would have needed a huge amount of effort to make it useful when the Nokia has a working kernel, drivers for hardware and X11!

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: WilliamHey on March 05, 2008, 09:25:54 am

i think is not dead, just need a little time.

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: fpp on March 05, 2008, 01:13:14 pm

The N8x0 Nokias even run the full monty KDE...

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: adf on March 05, 2008, 04:23:42 pm

Quote from: speculatrix

given the N810 seems to have everything we zaurus users could want, albeit not in a folding clamshell but good enough, is PP dead?

  ATM my Zaurii have everything this zaurus user could want

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: speculatrix on March 05, 2008, 04:38:44 pm

Quote from: WilliamHey

i think is not dead, just need a little time.

maybe the PP is just resting, pining for the fjords... lovely plumage, the pocketpenguin

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: Ragnorok on March 10, 2008, 12:43:47 pm

- Perhaps erosion of the Antarctic ice has had a negative impact on the smaller (pocketable) Penguins?

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: chiark on March 14, 2008, 09:38:24 am

OpenPandora, anyone?

http://openpandora.org/ (http://openpandora.org/)

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: Dromede on March 14, 2008, 10:15:05 am

Openpandora is great hardware wise but, goddamn that thing is UGLY!

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: speculatrix on March 21, 2008, 08:56:33 pm

I think owning a pandora will definitely be a fashion statement, as in "I don't care about fashion, form follows function and ugliness is fine".

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: Dromede on March 22, 2008, 08:40:02 am

It's not ugly if you look at it from the handheld  gaming perspective. But since everybody is waiting for the next Zaurus, Pandora is the closest thing to it hardware wise. Actually, it's exactly what we want in a new Zaurus - Updated hardware. Nothing else. And it's still ugly if i look at it as my next Zaurus.

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: wsuetholz on March 24, 2008, 05:26:02 pm

Quote from: speculatrix

Quote from: WilliamHey

i think is not dead, just need a little time.

maybe the PP is just resting, pining for the fjords... lovely plumage, the pocketpenguin

I think blue would be a good color..  Just look at that plumage :-)  And no, I don't have the feet nailed to the stand.

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: louigi600 on May 03, 2008, 04:41:05 am

Well who has one of the ~100 developer devices ?
What's it like ?

Title: Is Pp Project Dead?
Post by: AeroSigma on June 24, 2008, 05:26:27 pm

Ugly?  This is a totalCyber Punk fashion statement.  Match it with a pair of MyVu's (http://www.myvu.com/Crystal.html) and you're golden.  As soon as this comes out I'm going CyberPunk on your a$$es

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